Mae Whitman is a versatile actress in both film and television. She recently starred in the musical comedy Up Here for Hulu and as Annie Marks in NBC’s Good Girls. Whitman also co-hosted with Zach Gilford and Scott Porter an exclusive Friday Night Lights podcast called It’s Not Only Football: Friday Night Lights and Beyond, available via PodcastOne, and wherever podcasts are heard.
Previously, Whitman starred as Amber Holt, the bright, but rebellious daughter of Sarah Braverman (Lauren Graham) in NBC's drama series Parenthood. For her role, she won a Gracie Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Breakthrough Role and earned a Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
She starred in CBS Films’ comedy The DUFF as Bianca, a high school senior who instigates a social pecking order revolution after finding out that she has been labeled the DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) to her prettier more popular friends.
Whitman appeared in the critically acclaimed film The Perks of Being a Wallflower, as Mary Elizabeth, starring opposite Logan Lerman, Emma Watson and Ezra Miller. She also let her comedic chops shine, reprising her role as Ann Veal in the Emmy Award winning Arrested Development on Netflix. A talented voiceover actress, Whitman is the voice of Tinker Bell in the hugely successful Disney Fairies franchise, she voices the character of April O’Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Nickelodeon, and Amity in The Owl House.
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